Al Giordano of Narco News was onto Uribe as far back as 2002, when uribito was first elected president.
Link provides a lot of backgound info that is generally not known to most people.
Some pertinent snips: (Btw Pedro Juan Moreno who is featured in the article was killed in Feb. 2006 when his helicopter was sabotaged and crashed. He and uribe had had a falling out so Colombians suspect uribe ordered his death.)
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Uribe and Moreno, together, were the key movers behind the paramilitary rise in Antioquia in the mid 1990s.
As Uribe's chief of staff, Moreno had many responsibilities: Among them, establishing heavily armed and government-trained vigilantes known as Rural Vigilance Committees (CONVIVIRs, as they were known, and came to be feared, across Uribe's province). These vigilante brigades served, according to Amnesty International and dozens of respected human rights organizations, as thinly-masked and government-sanctioned boot camps and recruiting agencies for Colombia's cocaine-soaked paramilitary forces.
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Uribe's CONVIVIR project did turn, as Mayor Cuartas and many others had predicted, into a Frankenstein monster. The Uribe-backed brigades went on such a bloody rampage of massacres against unarmed civilians that they were banned, even in Colombia, by the end of 1997.
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"Another native of Antioquia is Senator Alvaro Uribe Vélez - whose father, Alberto Uribe Sierra, was a known narco-trafficker - who, when he was director of the Civil Air agency (Alvaro Uribe) gave pilots licenses to many narcos.
"Uribe (the father) was arrested once in order to be extradited, but Jesús Aristizabal Guevara, then government secretary for the City of Medellín, succeeded in setting him free.
Much more
http://www.narconews.com/narcocandidate1.html